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The Occasional Papers

The Hauslab–Liechtenstein Map Collection

Series No. 14 A Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication

Walter W. Ristow

The Occasional Papers A Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication

Editorial Staff:

Ryan J. Moore Chief Editor, Design and Layout

Anna Balaguer

Editor

David Ducey Copy Editor

Geography and Map Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C.

Summer 2018

The Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection

By

Walter Ristow (1908-2006)

Edited by Ryan J. Moore

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Foreword

It is with great pleasure we have republished former Geography and Map Chief Walter

Ristow’s article on the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection. The piece originally appeared in

the April 1978 edition of The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, which is no longer

in publication. The Division has chosen to posthumously republish the article forty years later

because for the first time a catalog record and a finding aid, both completed in 2018, represent

the collection online. Ristow’s article was invaluable in the preparation of these resources. In

fact, Ristow’s article remains the most substantial study of this amazing and unique collection

of cartography that dates from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.

The collection has an interesting provenance, which I shall leave to Ristow’s article to

tell in complete detail. However, briefly stated, the materials were collected by the Austrian

general and mapmaker Franz Ritter von Hauslab (1798-1883). Upon Hauslab’s death, Prince

Johann II of Liechtenstein (1840-1929) purchased the collection, and following World War II,

the Princely House of Liechtenstein later sold it along with portions of their own collection to

New York antiquarian dealer Hans Peter Kraus (1907-1988). Hence the hyphenated name,

Hauslab-Liechtenstein, by which it is known today. Most of the items in the collection are di-

vided between the Library of Congress, which holds the majority, and the Harvard Houghton

Library. Complicating the collection’s history is the fact that some select pieces were sold sep-

arately, including the famous 1507 Martin Waldseemueller globe gores to the James Ford Bell

Library at the University of Minnesota.

The Library of Congress acquired the collection in 1975 from the U.S. Air Force. The

collection is remarkably preserved and contains many superb examples, including early carto-

graphic methods of relief, a variety of print and production styles, and wide range of military

maps, thematic maps, and set maps, such as a beautifully colored Cassini Survey of France that

includes a very rare index sheet. The collection is a blend of art and science. What I mean by

this statement is that while the information on the maps was plotted accurately as possible, giv-

en the scientific limitations of the era in which the maps were produced, the data is comple-

mented by beautiful cartouches and border art. Several wall-sized pieces that were designed for

maximum impact upon the viewer particularly reflect this approach. These maps likely educat-

ed, impressed, and inspired observers to know the world both near and far. Consider Johann

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Christoph Mueller's rare 1720 map Regni Bohemiae… a work of cartography so detailed to in-

clude nearly every populated place and major geographic feature in the region, but then ampli-

fied by expertly drawn depictions of Prague Castle and Charles Bridge. Grand pieces, like a

portion Mueller’s map, have been included as illustrations in this paper, as seeing the maps is a

necessary part of truly experiencing and appreciating this wondrous collection.

Although the Hauslab-Liechtenstein collection has been in the possession of the Geog-

raphy and Map Division for many decades, public access to the collection has been limited

largely because of the constraints of pre-Internet librarianship to make descriptions of the mate-

rial available externally. As curator of the Division’s special collections, I moved to tackle the

problem. In the winter of 2018, I created a collection-level record and a complementary online

finding aid, which are in no small way indebted to the efforts of librarians that previously had

curatorial responsibility over the collection. The catalog record and finding aid are significant,

because they allow greater access to the materials than ever before. Following this step, the

Division decided to highlight and promote the collection by way of republishing Ristow’s 1978

article. In the summer of 2018, Anna Balaguer, a Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress, as-

sisted in the review of the materials to illustrate this publication and assisted in writing the cap-

tions. Ms. Balaguer was chosen for this project because of her studies in German and Latin at

the Colorado College located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Both of these languages are rep-

resented in the majority of the maps in the collection. Concerning preparing Ristow’s original

article for republication, myself, Ms. Balaguer, and David Ducey of the Geography and Map

Division, have updated the piece’s style and made edits only for the sake of clarity and flow.

The paper’s author, Walter Ristow, was born in 1908 and passed away in 2006, having

devoted his life to the study of cartography, the history of cartography, map librarianship, and

map collecting. Ristow was very well educated in these fields. He earned a bachelor’s degree

in geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1931, a master’s degree in geogra-

phy and geology from Oberlin College in 1933, and a doctorate in geography from Clark Uni-

versity in 1937. Ristow had a long and successful career in map librarianship. He was the

chief of the Map Division of the New York Public Library from 1937 to 1946. During World

War II, he served with the Military Intelligence Service as a wartime map analyst from 1941 to

1944. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1946 and commenced a thirty-two-year career in the

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Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. In his tenure, he served as assistant

chief from 1946 to 1968 and chief from 1968 to 1978. After he retired, Ristow was named

Honorary Consultant in the History of American Cartography at the Library of Congress from

1978 to 1987.

A prolific writer, Ristow prepared a long list of publications between 1933 and the late

1980s. Among his most noteworthy contributions were: The Emergence of Maps in Libraries

(1980), the prized American Maps and Mapmakers; Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth

Century (1985), (with R.A. Skelton) Nautical Charts on Vellum in the Library of Congress

(1977), the scholarly commentary to the facsimile of A Survey of the Roads of the United

States of America in 1789 by Christopher Colles (1960), (editor) A la Carte; Selected papers on

maps and atlases (1972), Marketing Maps of the United States (1951, 1952, and 1958), and

Aviation Cartography (1956, 1957, 1960). And of course, the article at hand, which is an inter-

esting and engaging look at one of the Geography and Map Division’s finest collections.

Before you, our reader, begin this journey to learn about the amazing Hauslab-

Liechtenstein Map Collection, I thank you for your support and interest in the Philip Lee Phil-

lips Map Society, whose funds the Division used for the publication of this paper. Founded in

1995 by Chief Ralph E. Ehrenberg, it stands today as one of the most active and diverse groups

of its kind anywhere in the world. I have been proud to serve as the group’s Executive Secre-

tary from 2012 until 2018. It has been a very memorable and fulfilling experience. I thank for-

mer Chief Ehrenberg, the Steering Committee, and the membership for allowing me the oppor-

tunity to serve in this capacity. With that all being said, please enjoy this history about a collec-

tion gathered by a well-traveled military mapmaker, held in a castle by a map-loving prince,

sold to a famous New York auctioneer, and finally transferred to the Library of Congress by the

U.S. Air Force.

Ryan J. Moore Cartographic Specialist Geography and Map Division

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Contents

Introduction 1

Franz von Hauslab 1

The Hauslab Library and Map Collection 5

Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein 7

The Library of Congress Acquisition 13

Acknowledgements 20

Endnotes 21

Gallery of Photographs and Maps 23

Notes on Front and Back Cover 48

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Introduction

Many of the world's great libraries are indebted to private collectors for some of their

rarest and most distinctive holdings. Cartographic collections, no less than book libraries, have

been the fortunate beneficiaries of the labors of enterprising and discerning individuals who as-

sembled and subsequently presented or bequeathed to institutions noteworthy maps, atlases, and

globes. In some instances, individuals sold private collections to antiquarian dealers or other

individual collectors before such collections ended in permanent repositories, such as libraries

and archives.

In 1975, the U.S. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories Library at Hanscom Air

Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts (hereafter “Hanscom Library”) transferred the Hauslab-

Liechtenstein Map Collection to the Library of Congress. The transfer comprised the largest

segment of the noteworthy cartographic collection assembled during the nineteenth century by

Franz Ritter von Hauslab, one of the Austrian Empire's most distinguished students of military

science, cartography, geography, history, and art. Hauslab's book, print, and map collections

have, for nearly two centuries, been highly esteemed by scholars, antiquarian dealers, and col-

lectors in many countries. Individual pieces and groups of material from the collections have,

from time to time, been offered for sale or presented as gifts and have been dispersed among a

number of libraries and private collections.

Acquisition by the Library of the residue of Hauslab's cartographic collection prompts

this review of the long and eventful career of Feldzeugmeister ("master general of ordnance")

Franz Ritter von Hauslab and an examination of his many varied interests and activities, which

are reflected in the collection. This report also documents the actions that fragmented and dis-

persed the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection, records where identifiable segments or indi-

vidual pieces of the collection are now preserved, analyzes the Library's Hauslab-Liechtenstein

accession, and describes a few of its more distinctive items.

Franz von Hauslab

Franz von Hauslab, who later in life had the title Ritter, which is the German equivalent

of knight, was born in Vienna, Austria, on February 1, 1798, into a distinguished family from

Styria, a state in southern Austria. The paternal line of the family had attained noble rank as

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early as 1744. His father, also named Franz, was an army officer and artist. Young Hauslab

studied briefly at the Vienna Academy of Art and entered the Vienna Engineering Academy

(hereafter “Engineering Academy”) in 1809, where he was recognized as an outstanding stu-

dent. In 1815, he was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in an Austrian infantry regiment that

fought on the side of Czar Alexander I of Russia's forces against the Grande Armée of Napole-

on Bonaparte. Following Napoleon’s defeat, Hauslab spent several months at an army camp

near Dijon, France.

Upon his return to Vienna, Hauslab joined the staff of the Austrian quartermaster gen-

eral and began an assignment in a unit engaged in mapping the Tyrol and Vorarlberg. The

young officer’s competence and skill in surveying, cartography, and drafting attracted the atten-

tion of the Austrian general staff, which at this time was interested in the possibility of applying

the new reproduction technique of lithography to map printing. Hauslab was sent to Munich in

1817 to learn about lithography from its inventor, Alois Senefelder. Two years later, he was

named to a committee chaired by Colonel Ludwig August Fallon that was evaluating the poten-

tial military applications of lithography. From these early experiences, Hauslab developed an

interest in printing methods, and he subsequently became familiar with other book and map re-

production processes.

In 1819, Franz von Hauslab was promoted to lieutenant in the Engineer Corps and as-

signed to teach topographic mapping and drawing at the Engineering Academy under the direc-

tion of Crown Prince Johann. Hauslab was then but twenty-one years old. With his character-

istic industry, he sought to master all aspects of the subject by a careful perusal of the mono-

graphic and serial literature published in Europe's intellectual and scientific centers. Through

these pursuits, he learned about the use of contours to show relief and passed this knowledge on

to his students and military colleagues. Hauslab served at the Engineering Academy for more

than twelve years, during which time he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1821 and to captain-

lieutenant in 1826.

Motivated to improve cartographic depictions of relief, in 1825, Hauslab introduced a

color key that, in combination with contours, portrays generalized relief on small-scale and me-

dium-scale maps. The system employs lighter colors for lowlands and ranges to darker gradi-

ents for higher elevations. For water depths, the key follows the principle "the deeper the dark-

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er." Hauslab's color gradient technique is still employed today for showing generalized relief

on some maps.

Hauslab’s curiosity about relief representation led him to study topography and the de-

velopment and evolution of landforms. From these disciplines, his fields of inquiry progressed

to geology, geodesy, and volcanism; he pursued these studies at the University of Vienna con-

currently with his teaching assignment at the Engineering Academy. Hauslab also found time

to do geologic fieldwork in Styria's Erzberg region during the summer of 1827.

The young officer, while engaged in cartographic activities, prepared maps of the city of

Baden, Austria, and the environs of Vienna, which he and others drew at the scale of 1:14,400.

In 1828 and 1829, the maps were printed using a process known as chromolithography, a meth-

od of creating multi-colored prints and, depending on the number of colors required, could take

printers months to produce. The maps are among the earliest examples of the application of

lithographic color printing to map reproduction.1

International events affected Hauslab’s career and interest in maps. One such develop-

ment was Greece's war for liberation from Ottoman control during the 1820s, which stirred Eu-

ropean sympathy and brought about military assistance for the Greeks. The struggle climaxed

on October 20, 1827, when the combined fleets of France, Great Britain, and Russia defeated

the Ottoman naval forces in the harbor of Navarino (modern Pilos), on the southwest coast of

the Peloponnesus Peninsula. Although Austria was not involved in the conflict, the country’s

leaders were concerned about the possible political impact of the decline of Ottoman influence

in the Balkan Peninsula. An Austrian naval detachment was accordingly dispatched to the

Middle East shortly before the Battle of Navarino, where Franz von Hauslab was assigned to

the fleet as an observer. The experience he gained led to his subsequent assignment, in 1828,

as military attaché in the Austrian embassy in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. He re-

mained in this post for two years. Residence in Constantinople had so awakened Hauslab's in-

terest in Middle Eastern studies and languages, that by the time of his departure in 1830, he had

become fluent in Turkish.

Hauslab resumed his teaching duties at the Engineering Academy upon returning to Vi-

enna. He also continued with his own education at the University of Vienna and the Polytech-

nic Institute, where he enrolled in courses in botany, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, and phys-

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ics. His military career was also on the rise. High-ranking officers of the Austrian general staff

recognized Hauslab for his varied activities and achievements. He was accordingly promoted

to captain in March 1833; the following January he was assigned to an infantry regiment. His

scientific contributions were also recognized, and, in 1834, he was accepted as a member of the

Geological Society of Paris. In the same year, he completed a twelve-sheet map of Styria.

From time to time, Hauslab received unique assignments in the service of the empire. In

1834, he was detailed to the royal court to teach principles of military science to the four sons

of Archduke Karl: Albrecht, Karl Ferdinand, Wilhelm, and Friedrich. This occupied a major

part of his time during the next five years. Because of his knowledge of Turkish, Hauslab also

served as interpreter for Ahmed Fethi Pasha, the official representative of Ottoman Sultan

Mahmud II to the coronation ceremonies for Kaiser Ferdinand I in 1835; also that year, he was

advanced to the rank of major. To develop closer ties with the Ottoman Empire, the Austrian

government invited six young Ottoman officers to Vienna for study and orientation in 1836, and

the Turkish-speaking Hauslab served as their instructor and supervisor. The following year, he

revisited Constantinople to present the greetings of the Austrian emperor to Ottoman Sultan

Mahmud II.

Two years later, Hauslab returned to the field and was one of a small group of Austrian

officers selected to observe the extensive military maneuvers at Voznesensk, an area in south-

ern Russia, in 1837. Following the exercises, he inspected Russian military posts and traveled

through the southern part of the Russian Empire, including the Crimean Peninsula. His return

to Vienna was a leisurely but educational one, with stops in Smyrna, Syria, Athens, and the Io-

nian Islands before he terminated the sea voyage at Trieste. The journey helped to augment his

book and map collections and expanded his knowledge of geography, political science, and mil-

itary strategy and tactics.

In 1838, Hauslab, while attached to the Austrian chancery, served as an instructor to the

officers of the Ottoman guards stationed in Vienna. During this period, he also tutored Princes

Ludwig and Friedrich of Baden and continued to instruct the sons of Archduke Karl. In 1839,

while attached to an infantry regiment commanded by Baron von Trapp, he rose to the rank of

lieutenant colonel in 1840 and to colonel in 1843. With experience in the field and a proficien-

cy as an instructor, Hauslab received further tutoring assignments. Thus, from 1843 to 1848,

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his students included the two eldest sons of Archduke Franz Karl-Franz, Joseph and Ferdinand

Max. The former was later crowned as emperor Austria and king of Hungary, and the latter be-

came Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.

His military career ascended after his fiftieth birthday in 1848. Hauslab was promoted

to major general and brigadier in Brunn. Subsequently, he was given command of the Artillery

Brigade of Lower Austria, which was quartered in Vienna. In August 1848, he was made chair-

man of a committee charged with planning a new arsenal for Austria's capital city. In 1849,

General von Hauslab commanded the Austrian Field Artillery in Hungary, which played a ma-

jor role in crushing the Hungarian nationalist revolution directed by Louis Kossuth. For

Hauslab’s distinguished performance at the crucial battles of Szoereg and Temesvár, he was

awarded the Military Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa. In October 1849, he was promoted

to field marshal lieutenant and commander of the field artillery, and in 1850, he commanded the

artillery of the Austrian First Army. During the next eight years, he earned further promotions,

culminating with his appointment as general director of the artillery corps in 1858. The follow-

ing year, he commanded the Austrian artillery on the Italian front.

Then more than sixty years old and with his health suffering from the rigors of military

life, Hauslab recognized his limitations and accepted a quiet assignment as the garrison com-

mander of the city and fortress of Prague. When even this post proved too demanding for his

deteriorating health, he retired from the army on February 14, 1861, with the rank of master of

field ordnance. The old soldier returned to active duty briefly in 1865 to serve on several mili-

tary boards. Also in that year, he held the office of president of the Geographical Society in

Vienna. Hauslab died on February 11, 1883, several days after his eighty-fifth birthday.

The Hauslab Library and Map Collection

It is uncertain exactly when Hauslab began assembling his library of books, prints, and

maps and is also undetermined what factors motivated him to do so. It is likely, however, that

he began acquiring such materials as early as 1820, when he was teaching in the Engineering

Academy and furthering his own interests and studies at the University of Vienna. By this time,

he already had experience in field mapping, had participated in a brief military campaign, and

had been introduced to lithography and studied its possible applications to military map repro-

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duction. While Hauslab was engaged in acquiring materials for the library throughout his ca-

reer, he was not able to give full attention to the task until after his retirement in 1868. Then,

during the last two decades of his life, he focused the majority of his time on his collections.

Fraulein Laura Bertuch, his faithful and long-time housekeeper and assistant, worked with him

in organizing and maintaining the library.

The collections grew along with his widening interests, such as his studies and experi-

ments with relief representation, topographic maps, works on cartographic representation, and

books on color perception and theory. He acquired many of the multi-sheet topographic maps

produced in the several decades following the Napoleonic wars. His travels, too, influenced his

collecting. Hauslab's assignments in the Ottoman Empire stimulated the acquisition of linguis-

tic books; maps of the Middle East, Russia, and other locations in Asia; historical and archaeo-

logical monographs; and works on geography, cartography, geology, and volcanism. He also

continued to persistently search for military maps and monographs.

Hauslab’s collecting habits extended beyond maps, as he also acquired paintings, en-

gravings, and prints. Perhaps his interest in them stemmed from the fact that Hauslab was a

gifted artist who created landscapes, panoramas, and portraits. This author presumes that

Hauslab’s father and grandfather, both of whom were talented drawing teachers, inspired his

interest in visual art.

At the time of Hauslab's death in 1883, it is estimated that his personal library included

thirteen thousand books, twenty thousand engravings, etchings, and prints, some ten thousand

maps, and an unspecified number of globes. The library reportedly filled two large rooms in

Hauslab's residence at Number 3 Laurenzgasse in south-central Vienna. Laurenzgasse is today

intersected by Hauslabgasse, a street some five blocks in length, which is named for the distin-

guished military geographer.

Although his library was organized by type of material, the divisions were not rigidly

observed, and there was a certain amount of intermixing. Most atlases, for example, were in the

book collection. However, a few atlases and certain technical works on cartography were filed

with the map collection. Books were arranged on shelves, and prints and maps were enclosed

in large buckram and leather portfolios. All materials were systematically organized, but there

was no comprehensive card or book catalog with descriptions of individual items.

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From the residue of the map collection in the Library of Congress, it is possible to make

only a general determination of the system employed by Hauslab to organize and file his maps.

As previously noted, the maps were originally preserved in some seventy or more large (75 x

100 cm) portfolios constructed of heavy boards covered with buckram and leather. The portfo-

lios comprise six different series with two portfolios in the smallest group and twenty-four in

the largest. The unifying factors of the series are not clearly apparent, and maps that appear to

have common features may be filed in different series. In some portfolios, subject was given

priority, while in others, the arrangement was by administrative or geographical divisions.

Within most portfolios, maps were inserted in large brown paper folders. On the face of each

such folder was written, in large German script, a brief description of its contents, the number

of sheets therein and the date span. Subgroups such as maps depicting lesser political entities

were customarily filed in smaller white or gray folders within the larger folder.

Concerning the subject matter of the materials, two portfolios contained more than five

hundred campaign, battle, and siege maps of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centu-

ries. Some four hundred city plans, arranged alphabetically, occupied two others. Alte Karten

("historical maps") were obviously a major interest of Hauslab's, and several portfolios are so

labeled. Originals and facsimiles were filed together as Alte Karten. Hauslab's area priorities

appear to have been Austria, with particular emphasis on the Vienna and Tyrol regions.

Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein

Franz Ritter von Hauslab had no direct heirs, and on January 28, 1883, just two weeks

before his death, Hauslab, by written testament, transferred ownership of his valuable and ex-

tensive library of books, prints, and maps to his assistant Laura Bertuch. It is very likely that

Fraulein Bertuch intended to follow Hauslab's wishes and maintain his collection, but after his

death, she felt considerable pressure to sell the library. The Austrian government, several anti-

quarian dealers, and Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein, reportedly, were among the interested

bidders. On July 17, 1883, six months after the death of her benefactor, Fraulein Bertuch

signed an agreement with Prince Johann II to sell to him the books, prints, and maps in the li-

brary assembled by Franz Ritter von Hauslab. The sale price was 155,000 Austrian gulden.

The Liechtenstein purchase comprised old and current books, copper engravings, woodcuts,

etchings, lithographs, miniatures, manuscripts, historic and contemporary maps, and a small

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number of rare globes and globe gores. Not in the sale were manuscript maps, original draw-

ings, and Hauslab's personal papers and writings. Most of the latter material was acquired by

the Austrian Military Archives in 1922.

The prince added the Hauslab materials to the renowned Liechtenstein Library and art

collection, then located in the Gartenhaus Palace in Vienna. Many atlases from the Hauslab

collection were incorporated into the Liechtenstein Library, and a three-volume author catalog

of the library, published in 1931, two years after the death of Prince Johann II, has a number of

listings under Blaeu, Mercator, Ortelius, and Ptolemy, among others.2 Some two decades earli-

er, a separate catalog of incunabula in the Liechtenstein Library and the Hauslab collection was

published.3

The Liechtenstein Library was one of richest in private ownership and had its origins in

the last quarter of the sixteenth century, on the initiative of Hartmann II of Liechtenstein. Sub-

sequent heads of the family enlarged the artistic and bibliographic holdings by purchasing indi-

vidual pieces and collections during the next several centuries. After the Principality of Liech-

tenstein formed in 1719, the distinguished collection was licensed as a Fideikommissbibliothek

("Trust Library").

Three years after its purchase, the Hauslab map collection was analyzed in considerable

detail by Carl Haradauer Edler von Heldendauer, director of the map department in the Austrian

Military Archive and librarian of the Geographical Society of Vienna.4 In his 1886 essay,

Haradauer detailed the long and eventful career of Hauslab and described the noteworthy col-

lection by major groups. Haradauer estimated that some 4,500 maps sheets were in the Hauslab

collection when Prince Johann II made the purchase. However, a summary of the holdings of

the Liechtenstein’s Library, published in 1915, offers the following figures for the Hauslab col-

lection: 20,000 volumes, 20,000 prints, and 10,000 maps. The last figure is more compatible

with the number of maps in the segment of the cartographic collection now in the Library of

Congress.

Between 1883 and 1899, Prince Johann II made generous gifts of portions of the

Hauslab collection to libraries and museums within and outside Austria. Among the gifts were

maps and books which were presented to the University of Vienna Library, the Austrian Mili-

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tary Archives, and the Austrian Education Ministry. In 1893 and 1896, the prince also sold du-

plicate maps from the collection to antiquarian dealers.

After World War II, the Princely House of Liechtenstein sold a number of prints from

the Hauslab collection, most of which went to London antiquarian dealers. Shortly thereafter,

the balance of the prints, contained in some eighty portfolios, were sold to London dealers. In

1949, a number of portfolios housing the Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection, along with rare

globes and globe gores, were sold to New York antiquarian dealer Hans Peter Kraus. This au-

thor, however, could not find any record concerning the amount Kraus paid for the cartographic

collection.

Kraus decided to sell more the desirable pieces separately from the bulk of the collec-

tion. The Library of Congress was an early recipient of a Hauslab item purchased in 1950 from

the Kraus firm: a large morocco-bound album with a handwritten German title page. The Eng-

lish translation reads: "Copper engravings of all kinds of battles and encounters on land, sieges,

conquests and the like from Anno 1566 to Anno 1711, 206 pieces, and 33 pieces without dates;

also all kinds of sea battles from Anno 1570 to 1705, 16 pieces, and 2 pieces without dates." A

coat of arms stamped in blue bears the name F.Z.M. Fr. Ritter v. Hauslab. Each of the 250

broadsides in the album, now held in the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division, consists of

an upper part (woodcut or copper engraving) that portrays a historical event and a lower part

with printed descriptive text. Library of Congress staff member Renata Shaw analyzed fifty-

five of the broadsides in a paper published in the January 1975 issue of the (now defunct)

Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress.5 A number of the broadside illustrations are car-

tographic in appearance and show, in perspective or vertical representation, battles, cities under

attack and siege, and army encampments.

Among the rarest items in the Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection were Martin Wald-

seemueller's globe gores, dated 1507, which like Waldseemueller’s Universalis Cosmographia

of the same date, include the name "America." It is not known how or when Hauslab acquired

the gores, but they have long recognized as one of the brightest stars in the Hauslab-

Liechtenstein Map Collection. Haradauer, however, did not mention the Waldseemueller gores

in his 1886 article.

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The story of separation of the gores from the collection began in 1950. Parke-Bernet

Galleries held an auction on May 24 and offered for sale the “Martin Waldseemueller Hauslab-

Liechtenstein Globular Map of the World on Which the Name America Appears for the First

Time.” A notice on the verso of the auction’s catalog states: "The consignor has advised us that

a previous bona fide private offer of $50,000 for the map has been received and declined. Bid-

ding at the sale will, in consequence, begin above this figure, and if no bids in excess of

$50,000 are received, the map will be withdrawn." The "consignor" in this instance appears to

have been the Princely House of Liechtenstein.6 Presumably no bids in excess of $50,000 were

received at the Parke-Bernet auction. In October 1954, the University of Minnesota’s James

Ford Bell Library had acquired the Waldseemueller globe gores.7 The prince of Liechtenstein's

agent negotiated the sale, but there is no publicly available record of the sale price of the gores,

but it was probably less than the original gallery estimate of $50,000.8

When listed in the 1950 Parke-Bernet catalog, the Waldseemueller globe gores were

described as "the only known copy.” Kraus, however, subsequently acquired a second set of

the gores bound in a copy of the 1486 Nicolaus Germanus edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia,

which was published in Ulm by Johann Reger. This copy is described as "item No. I" in

Globes and Globe-Gores, the H. P. Kraus Private Collection, published in 1969 as a supple-

ment to Monumenta Cartographica, Kraus catalog 124. (Editor’s note: Kraus’ widow sold the

gores to the Bavarian State Library in 1990, but they were proven to be a forgery in 2018.)

Among the nine entries in the Kraus globe catalog are manuscript terrestrial globe gores

on paper "from the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Collection" (cat. no. IX). It is assumed that the gores

were prepared to order for Franz von Hauslab by an unidentified cartographer between 1835

and 1840. Two other items listed in the Kraus globe catalog were also from the Hauslab-

Liechtenstein collection. Item IV comprises a pair of terrestrial and celestial globe gores pre-

pared in the late sixteenth century by Joannes Oterschaden, and item VIII consists of Louis

Charles Desnos's terrestrial globe gores published in 1757. Items IV and IX, as well as four

other items in the Kraus globe catalog, were purchased by the University of Texas's Humanities

Research Center Library.9 Hauslab's interest in and contributions to the history of early globes

was noted by Oskar Regele in an article published in Der Globusfreund in 1953.10

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Kraus catalog 56, published in 1951, offered Choice Manuscripts, Books, Maps and

Globes Important for the History of European Civilization and the Discovery of America. The

subtitle called attention to "Illuminated Codices, Early Drawings, Incunabula and Illustrated

Books, Remarkable Maps from the Prince Liechtenstein Collection and Globes from a Private

Library." Part II of the catalog, including items 17 to 28, is subtitled "Early Cartography of

America, twelve great maps illustrating the progress of geographical knowledge of the New

World selected from the recently acquired Hauslab-Prince Liechtenstein Collection of Maps."

The items described in this section of the catalog range in date from 1518 to 1659 and

include two sets of globe gores, a manuscript portolan chart of the east and Gulf coasts of

America, a Hondius wall map of Europe, and eight world maps, several of them also wall-sized.

Prices for the individual pieces ranged from $900 to $15,000, with the total for the twelve items

adding up to $67,400. Before any of these pieces were sold, Harvard University's Houghton

Library negotiated for the purchase of these as well as an additional 148 rare items from the

Hauslab-Liechtenstein Collection. Two Harvard alumni, Stephen W. Phillips of Salem, Massa-

chusetts, and Curt H. Reisinger of New York City, provided funds for the acquisition. This au-

thor, however, could not locate any record of the price paid for the lot. Based upon the catalog

listings for the original 12 items, and noting that many of the other 148 pieces are of compara-

ble rarity, one might speculate that the Houghton sale may have brought the dealer $150,000 or

more.

The Houghton Library Report of Accessions for the year 1951-52 (Cambridge, Mass.,

1952), under the heading "The Hauslab-Prince Liechtenstein Map Collection," includes this an-

nouncement:

This year, through the generous gift of Stephen W. Phillips, '95, and Curt

H. Reisinger, '12, the cartographical collection of the Prince Liechtenstein

was purchased. This addition of over 150 wall and sheet maps, two-thirds

of which are of the sixteenth century, brings to Harvard one of the world's

great collections of Renaissance maps. A good many of these maps are

unique, and very few of them are to be found in any other American collec-

tion. Over thirty are wall-maps extending to as many as a dozen sheets, and

two are manuscript, a portolan chart of the Mediterranean by Vesconte Mag-

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giolo dated Naples, 24 August 1513, in its original tin chart-case, and a por-

tolan of the East and Gulf coasts of North America and the Northern part of

South America by Nicholas Comberford, 1659.

There are three of the rare pilgrim maps of Europe printed in Nuremberg

in the last decade of the fifteenth century and the first of the sixteenth, at-

tributed to Erhard Etzlaub, which are among the earliest maps to have been

printed. Included in the dozen sixteenth-century world maps are several that

are unique, such as the Vespucci, Vopell, Oronce Fine, and Rosaccio, while

among the five sets of printed gores for globes are also several unique ones,

of which the Ingolstadt terrestrial globe, which is dated about 1518, is one of

the earliest to name America and is remarkable for its coverage of carto-

graphical information of that date.

The Liechtenstein maps were for the most part collected by General von

Hauslab, and although half of them were printed in Italy, they contain a

large number of rare maps of Eastern Europe, nine, for example, being Rus-

sian. They also include seven detailed maps of cities including Moscow, St.

Petersburg, Warsaw, and Vienna. The names of their makers are enough to

start one's imagination traveling-Herberstein, Vavassore, DeMongenet, Mer-

cator, Hondius, Kyrilov, and Blaeu.

Some of the maps purchased by Houghton were in Hauslab's collection before it was

sold to the Prince of Liechtenstein. We note that a number of the maps were described by

Haradauer in his article referenced above. The number of Houghton maps that were in the

Hauslab or original Liechtenstein collections is unascertained by this writer.

Kraus’ catalogs provide insight about the acquisitions of Hauslab-Liechtenstein materi-

als by the University of Texas at Austin. Kraus’ catalog 124, Monumenta Cartographica (ca.

1969), included eight Hauslab-Liechtenstein items under catalog numbers 1, 11, 14, 16, 18, 19,

21, and 25. Listed prices for these eight pieces totaled $22,625. The University of Texas Harry

Ransom Center purchased the Hauslab-Liechtenstein items, as well as fifty-seven other pieces

listed in catalog 124. As noted above, this library also acquired six of the nine globes and globe

gores (including two from the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Collection), which were described in

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Globes and Globe-Gores, The H. P. Kraus Private Collection that was issued as a supplement

to Monumenta Cartographica.11

It is worth mentioning that in the same year the Houghton Report was published, twenty

-one of the Houghton Hauslab-Liechtenstein items were displayed in "The World Encom-

passed," an exhibition of the history of maps held at the Baltimore Museum of Art from Octo-

ber 7 to November 23, 1952. The exhibit, jointly sponsored by the museum, the Walters Art

Gallery, and the Peabody Institute, featured cartographic rarities from a number of the country's

foremost collections. The exhibit catalog, published by the Walters Art Gallery, includes de-

scriptions of the Houghton items.

The Library of Congress Acquisition

Turning to the Library of Congress acquisition of Hauslab-Liechtenstein maps, the story

began earlier, in 1951, when Kraus sold a large segment of the map collection, containing some

eighty-eight hundred sheets, to the Hanscom Air Force Base Library. The reported price was

$12,000. The collection of historic maps acquired by the Hanscom Library had little reference

value to the Air Force scientists and technologists who were the library’s principal patrons.

The librarian responsible for the collection, however, had a strong personal and custodi-

al interest in the material. As time permitted during the two or more decades that the maps

were in his custody, he compiled a "Short-Title List for Twenty-Six Liechtenstein Folios." The

catalog describes some 620 titles in 2,400 sheets. The numerical sequence lacks approximately

635 numbers, indicating that many items originally in these portfolios were dispersed before

this portion of the Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection was purchased by the Hanscom Li-

brary. While accomplishing this work of librarianship, some of the original Hauslab paper fold-

ers were discarded, and the twenty-six portfolios were compacted to seventeen, indicating that

some of their contents may have been removed during sales previously. A condensed list, enti-

tled "Dates and Incipits for Twenty-six Liechtenstein Folios," gives dates of individual maps,

the first word in the title, and the number of sheets for multi-sheet series. A manuscript note on

the cover of the condensed list reads: "The folios having very few sheets have probably been

denuded for Harvard." This seems to be confirmed by the small number of pre-1700 maps.

The seventeen Hanscom Library portfolios contained approximately 620 map titles in some

2,400 sheets. This represents approximately a fourth of the maps in the Library of Congress

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Hauslab-Liechtenstein accession. All but four of the portfolios inventoried in the Hanscom Li-

brary list constitute the original Prince of Liechtenstein map collection and were not part of the

prince's Hauslab purchase.

In April 1975, the Hanscom Library transferred the Hauslab-Liechtenstein maps to the

Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Encased in sixty-nine portfolios, they ar-

rived in a large wooden shipping crate, the contents of which weighed more than 330 pounds.

Seventeen of the portfolios acquired by the Library, which compact the contents of twenty-four

original ones, constitute a separate collection that are more systematically arranged and in better

order than those that were in the remainder of the collection. This group of maps was in the

original Liechtenstein Map Collection that was in the princely library from the end of the eight-

eenth century.12 There is a manuscript list of the maps in the original Liechtenstein collection

in the Vaduz Castle library. Maps dating from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century are

part of this collection.

A preliminary inventory by the Library of Congress revealed that the Library's Hauslab-

Liechtenstein accession includes, approximately, 4,073 titles in some 10,000 sheets. It totals

perhaps 80 percent of the material purchased by H. P. Kraus from the Princely House of Liech-

tenstein. Although, as previously noted, some of the interesting items have, in the century since

Hauslab's death, been removed, the Library now has custody of the major portion of the carto-

graphic collection assembled by Franz Ritter von Hauslab and the princes of Liechtenstein.

During the inventory, differences in the physical state and arrangement of the Hauslab

and Liechtenstein materials were discovered. The Hauslab maps show heavier use and are less

preserved and have the Hauslab ownership stamp. The Hauslab materials are grouped by types

of map or subject, such as city plans, military maps, relief representations, topographic maps,

and volcanic maps. The Liechtenstein maps can be identified from a portfolio number in Ro-

man numerals and a sheet or map number in Arabic numerals. In terms of physical condition,

the group are backed with heavy paper and have blue tissue affixed to their borders, apparently

as a unifying feature. The arrangement in the Liechtenstein collection is based exclusively on

administrative geographical divisions.

The Library's accession encompasses the world and its various divisions and subdivi-

sions but is strongest in European maps. Hauslab's native country of Austria is particularly well

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represented, as are the provinces of the country and its capital city, Vienna. There is also good

coverage for other areas of the collector's interest, including Russia, Turkey, the Middle East,

Italy, and Germany. There are perhaps fewer than two or three hundred American maps, more

than half of which are of the southern continent. Most of the limited number of U.S. maps,

moreover, were issued by European publishers.

Notwithstanding the extensive and comprehensive holdings of the Geography and Map

Division, the Hauslab-Liechtenstein accession adds considerable depth and strength to its col-

lections. This is true in part because the Library had no separate map department until 1897.

Although there were a number of maps and atlases in the collections before that date, the acqui-

sition emphasis had been on American materials. This was also a primary interest of the first

Superintendent of Maps Philip Lee Phillips. He also sought after rare and historical materials,

particularly atlases, and his efforts are evidenced by the Library's very considerable collection

of cartographic rarities. Nineteenth-century materials were not deemed to be of collectible sig-

nificance during the early decades of the twentieth century. The Hauslab-Liechtenstein acces-

sion, with its great strength in nineteenth-century European maps, therefore richly complements

the holdings of the Geography and Map Division. Of particular interest are the many multi-

sheet topographic map series issued by official and commercial publishers during the latter dec-

ades of the eighteenth century and throughout much of the nineteenth.

Although there are few individual pieces that compare with the Hauslab-Liechtenstein

items purchased by Harvard's Houghton Library, the Library of Congress accession does in-

clude a number of separate maps and map series which have great cartographic significance as

well as intrinsic value. The collection contains a number of interesting manuscript pieces, in-

cluding more than forty delicately rendered chalk and sepia sketch maps, views, and profiles of

volcanoes from the pen of Carl Ritter, the notable nineteenth-century German geographer. Oth-

er Ritter manuscripts are hand-drawn facsimiles of the thirteenth-century medieval world map

by Isador of Seville and Fra Mauro’s world map of 1450. Ritter’s contemporary, Alexander

von Humboldt, is represented by a small hand-drawn sketch map of the northern half of South

America and two related manuscript graphs.

Hauslaub’s drawings and papers were, reportedly, not included in the sale to the prince

of Liechtenstein, but several of his manuscripts are in the Library accession. A group of four

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manuscript maps of the Styria region of Austria demonstrates his skill in portraying cartograph-

ic relief. Of particular interest is a map of Vienna that was drawn at the scale of 1:28,800 and

includes Hauslab’s signature, annotations, a tracing paper overlay sheet with re-revisions, and a

handwritten page outlining plans for expanding the city. The annotated map likely dates from

1848, a time when Hauslab chaired a committee that was concerned with developing plans for

the city's growth. There is also a manuscript tracing of an early Chinese world map that bears

Hauslab's signature.

Scattered throughout the collection are a number of unsigned manuscript maps, many of

which display a high level of cartographic and artistic skill. Some, dating from the late eight-

eenth century, are similar in technique and symbolism to the maps prepared by English military

engineers during the revolutionary war. The anonymous manuscript maps, which show various

European cities as well as the Bay of Gibraltar, islands, and other features, may have been

drawn by some of Hauslab's students or military associates.

Hauslab’s interest in military science and history is reflected by the inclusion of several

hundred maps and plans of campaigns, sieges, and battles of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and

nineteenth centuries. Two large portfolios hold maps and plans for most of the world's major

cities and towns, although North America is only meagerly represented. The plans date from

the late sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, with the majority in the latter period.

Most are on single sheets, but several at large or medium scales are comprised of many sheets,

such as a plan of the central portion of Paris, published in 1739. At the large scale of 1:14,000

is an 1830 plan of Vienna and vicinity, which was published in 150 small sheets. There is also

an 1809 engraved map of Vienna and vicinity in twelve sheets. A seventeen-sheet map of the

environs of Buda and Pest (then called Ofen and Pesth), Hungary, which was published in

1836, was also lithographed.

The three-dimensional pictorial perspective used in the 1726 reproduction of a twelve-

sheet map of Goerlitz, by Joseph Melsker, originally published in 1566, is quite interesting.

Also in the collection are woodcut reproductions of sixteenth-century maps of Nuremberg, Ger-

many, and vicinity and the city of Prague. There is also a four-sheet woodcut map of Das

Landt und Freistisst Berchtesgaden, published in 1628. A copy of this included in the Hough-

ton Library Hauslab-Liechtenstein purchase. Grundriss der k.k. Stadt Karlsbad, 1819, by Franz

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von Weiss, was lithographed and colored by hand. There are also engraved plans, with detailed

hand coloring, of a number of cities, including Belgrade and Trieste.

As noted, Hauslab had a keen interest in topographic maps. Residing in Vienna, the

capital of the Austrian Empire, he was well situated for acquiring maps that were issued during

the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He possessed several maps made by the Austrian gen-

eral staff, which published a number of detailed series during the early decades of the nine-

teenth century. Among such series in the Library Hauslab-Liechtenstein accession are Herzog-

tums Salzburg, published in 1810 in fifteen sheets, a map of the Archduchy of Austria dated

1813 in 49 sheets, and an 1823 series of Tyrol, Vorarlberg, and Liechtenstein in 23 sheets. As a

young engineering officer, Hauslab conducted surveys for this last map in 1816. He collected

commercially published maps, too. Examples of unofficial series are F.A. Schrambl’s Neueste

Generalkarte von Deutschland in XXIV Blaettern, published in Vienna in 1797; D.F. Sot-

zmann’s fifteen sheet Nordliche Theil des Herzogthums Warschau, published in Berlin in 1808;

and W. Mueller’s multi-sheet Chorographische Karte des Koenigreichs Hannover, an 1818 pub-

lication.

Several earlier topographic series are of special importance to the history of cartog-

raphy. These reflect Hauslab's interest in Tyrol, and he appears to have made a persistent effort

to collect all the map series for this province. One of the earliest is a twelve-sheet woodcut re-

production of Matthias Burgklehner’s Die Fuerstlich Grafschaft Tirol, published in 1611. Also

of considerable rarity is Archiducatus Austriae Inferiors Accuratissima Geographica Descripto,

by the Tyrolean cleric and cartographer Georg Matthaeus Vischer. Included in collection are

1670 and 1697 editions of this early topographic map. Both are at the approximate scale of

1:150,000 and are on sixteen small sheets backed with stiff board. The 1670 edition was en-

graved by Melchior Kuesell, and Jacobus Hoffman and Jakobus Hermundt were the engravers

for the later edition. There is a place name index for the 1697 version. A ten-sheet copy of the

1697 edition, mounted as a wall map, was one of the items in the Houghton Library Hauslab-

Liechtenstein purchase. The Houghton Library also acquired a twelve-sheet wall map of upper

Austria by Vischer, whose Archiducatus Austriae Inferiors Accuratissima Geographica De-

scripto, also in the Library of Congress accession, is undated.

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Another interesting early topographic map of Tyrol is the twenty-sheet Atlas Tyrolensis

published in 1774. The map, at the scale of 1:103,800, was prepared by Peter Anich and

Blasius Hueber, two farmers who were natives of the village of Oberperfuss, near Innsbruck.

Although Anich had little formal education, he became interested in astronomy at an early age.

For five years, from 1751 to 1755, Anich spent his weekends in Innsbruck studying mathemat-

ics and astronomy with Ignatz Weinhart, a Jesuit priest. Anich died in 1766, and the Atlas

Tyrolensis was completed by Blasius Hueber who had been his fellow townsman's assistant.

Two copies of Anich and Hueber’s Atlas Tyrolensis, which was published in 1774, are in the

collection. In 1801 France’s Deport General de la Guerre published a reproduction of the An-

ich-Hueber map at the approximate scale of 1:140,500. Two copies of this map are also in the

Hauslab-Liechtenstein in accession. These duplications confirm that the accession includes

parts of two separate collections.

A copy of the Cassini map of France acquired with the Hauslab-Liechtenstein transfer

was printed from engraved plates and is in the Liechtenstein collection portion of the accession.

The map was the first scientific topographic survey of France and was initiated in 1741 and

completed in 1783. Four generations of the Cassini family were involved in its production.

The map was published in 1789 in 180 sheets at the scale of 1:86,400. The sheets were colored

by hand, mounted on heavy paper and, in contrast to most extant series of the map, unfolded.

This magnificent map was probably a presentation copy. The National Library of France only

has scattered sheets of this series.

Before the Cassini map was published, an Austrian military officer, Le Comte Josef de

Ferraris, undertook a survey of the Austrian Netherlands (today the country of Belgium) on an

extension of the Cassini triangulation network at the same scale. Carte Chorographique des

Pays-Bas Autrichiens was published in twenty-five sheets in 1777.

Among early historical maps in the Library’s accession are Theodor de Bry's 1596 map

of America, Orontius Finaeus's world map of 1531 on the double cordiform projection, and

Hartmann Schedel's 1493 Libri Chronicorum (zodiac chart), from the Nuremberg Chronicles.

Facsimiles of early maps, such as those reproduced in Edme Francois Jomard's 1862 Les Monu-

ments de la geographie, are in the collection. There is an unbound incomplete set, and an 1882

reproduction of Gerard Mercator's La Grande Carte de Flandre, initially published in 1540. Al-

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so present is an unbound copy of the 1859 Entdeckungsgeschichte Amerikas by Kunstmann,

Sprunner, and Thomas.

Among early examples of lithographically printed military maps were those produced

between 1808 and 1825 by the British Quartermaster General’s Office, Horse Guards, London.

There are five Horse Guards maps in the Hauslab-Liechtenstein accession, including the 1808

Sketch of the Attack upon the French Position at Zambuiera.

Lithographic maps published before 1830 were, with some few exceptions, printed

black on white. Some, like their engraved predecessors, were hand colored. As previously not-

ed, a multi-sheet map of Vienna published in 1830 was reproduced by chromolithography.

During the 1830s, Herders Geographical Institute in Freiburg, Germany, published a series of

multi-sheet maps which employed lithography in two colors. They were prepared under the

direction of J. E. Woerl. In the Hauslab-Liechtenstein materials, there are Woerl series for Cen-

tral Europe, France, and Baden-Wuerttemberg.

European printers experimented with movable type in printing maps as early as 1776.

These early efforts produced rather stereotyped and unattractive maps, and the invention of li-

thography discouraged further experiments. In 1839, however, Franz Raffelsperger of Vienna

published a typographic postal map of Austria in four sheets. He subsequently published other

maps by this technique, some three or four of which were collected by Hauslab.

Especially in his later years, Hauslab developed an interest in thematic or special-subject

maps and atlases. We thus find in the collection such items as J. Albu’s Hygienisch-

topographischer Atlas von Berlin (1877); C. L. Baur’s Geneographische Karte von

Deutschland (1867); Sprachkarte von Pruessicher Staat (1861), by Richard Boeckh;

Oesterreichs Weinbrau, published in 1868 by K.K. Landwirtschafts Gesellschaft, Vienna; and

H. Kiepert’s Voelker-und Sprachen Karte von Deutschland und des Nachbarlaenden (1866).

Astronomy and outer space were of interest to Hauslab. Accordingly, there are a num-

ber of related charts in the Library’s accession. Of note is a small map that portrays the earth as

seen from the moon (Die Erde vom Mondgesehn). Inset maps also visualize Mars and Jupiter

as viewed from the moon.

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The collection also includes profiles showing elevations and heights of mountains, spe-

leological maps, representations of subsurface mines, historical time charts, mileage tables,

world maps at various sizes and scales, and multi-sheet maps of the courses of the Danube,

Lahn, Neckar, and Rhine rivers. Among the relatively few U.S. items is a series of ten state

maps, each with descriptive text in German, published in 1825 by Geographisches Institut, Wei-

mar.

Hauslab not only collected the best contemporary and historic maps, he also purchased

curiosities, such as a Whimsical Representation of England and Wales, portraying these entities

as a woman riding on the back of a fish. Also in this category are a map of Europe in the form

of Elizabeth I of England (Europa Prima Terra in Forma Virginis) and a companion one of Asia

as the body of the winged horse Pegasus (Asia Secunda Pars Terrae in Forma Pegasi). Other

zoomorphic cartographic portrayals are Nova Dilionsis Bernensis Tabula Geographica Ursa of-

figie delineata, showing Switzerland as a bear, and the familiar Leo Belgicus, with the Nether-

lands represented as a lion. The copy now in the Library is the Strada version, with German

title, described under number 51 in Tooley. Finally, there is a perspective of Mount Brocken, in

Germany’s Harz Mountains (Vue del la Montagne de Broken situe dams le Territoire du Comte

de Wenigerode, qui est dans le forêt de Hartz). Homan’s 1749 edition is a plagiarism of L.S.

Bestehorn’s 1732 map. Popular legend associates Brocken with Walpurgis Night (May 1),

when witches assemble on the mountaintop. The map shows a number of witches approaching

their destination, riding on brooms.

Acknowledgements

In preparing this paper, the author has had the assistance and cooperation of the follow-

ing individuals, to whom he extends his appreciation and thanks: Ilse Hurtl, student at Die Uni-

versitaet Wien, who sent a copy of her unpublished paper "Franz Ritter von Hauslab"; Dr. Jo-

hannes Dorflinger, Historisches Institut, Die Universitaet Wien; Dr. Ernst Bernleithner, Coro-

nelli-Weltbund der Globusfreunde, Wien; Dr. Friedrich Rennhofer, Direktor, Universitaetsbibli-

othek, Wien; Dr. Wagner, Direktor, Das Kriegsarchiv, Vienna; Dr. Rudolf Kinauer, former

Direktor, Kartensammlung, Osterreichische National Bibliothek; Dr. John Parker, Curator,

James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota; Evano L. Cunha, Chief, U.S. Air Force Geo-

physical Laboratory Research Library, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts; Mrs. Sally

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Leach, Associate Librarian, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas; and Dr. Gustav

Wilhelm, Library of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Vaduz Castle, Liechtenstein.

Endnotes

1. Ernst Nischer von Falkenhof, Oesterreichische Kartographen, Ihr Leben, Lehren und Wirken (Vienna: Oesterreichischer Bundesverlag, 1925), 162.

2. House of Liechtenstein, Katalog der in den Bibliotheken der regierenden Linie des Fuerstlichen Hauses ... , 3 vols., comp. Hanns Bohatta (Vienna, 1931).

3. Fuerstlich Liechtenstein'sche Fideikommiss-Bibliothek, Vienna, Katalog der lnkunabeln der Furstlich Liechten-stein'sche Fideikommiss-Bibliothek und der Hauslab-sammlung, comp. Hanns Bohatta (Vienna, 1919).

4. Carl Haradauer Edler von Heldendauer, "Die Feld-zeugmeister Ritter von Hauslab'sche Kartensammlung." Geographische Gesellschaft, Vienna, Mitteilungen 29, n.f. 19 (1886), 374-95, 433-454.

5. Renata Shaw, "Broadsides of the Thirty Years' War," Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 32 (January 1975), 2-24.

6. Letter from John Parker, curator, James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, July 25, 1977.

7. "Minnesota U. Gets Two Famed Maps," New Y ork Times, October 30, 1954.

8. Parker, July 25, 1977.

9. Information in a letter from Mrs. Sally S. Leach, associate librarian, Humanities Re-search Center, August 25, 1977.

10. Oskar Regele, "Die Globen des Josef Juettner (1775- 1848) und des Franz Ritter von Hauslab (1798-1883)," Der Globusfreund, no. 2 ( 1953), 16-22.

11. Leach, August 25, 1977.

12. This information was provided in a letter from Dr. Gustav Wilhelm, Sammlungen des Regierenden Fuersten von Liechtenstein, Schloss Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Decem-ber 5, 1977.

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Gallery of Photographs & Maps

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Franz Ritter von Hauslab (1798-1883) was an Austrian general and cartographer. Hauslab acquired a vast array of cartographic speci-mens that ranged from military maps to novelties that date from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

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Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein (1840-1929) purchased Hauslab’s collection and added it to his family’s library of maps and texts.

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Walter Ristow (1908-2006), the paper’s author, served thirty-two-years in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. In 1975, he preliminarily reviewed the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection and made studies of the collection thereafter, which in-cluded the original publication of this paper in 1978.

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HL 57-112. Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni (1736-1814), Carta del Littore di Napoli e de luoghi antichi piu rimarchevoli di quei Contorni Delineata per Ordine del Re da Gio. Ant. Fizzi-Zannoni, 1794. A map of Mt. Vesuvius and the adjacent coast and islands of Italy was prepared in 1794 by Anton Rizzi-Zannoni, a late eighteenth century skilled Italian cartographer. The severity of the mountainous terrain, and especially of Mt. Vesuvius, seems to have been exaggerated by the cartographer, who depicted the slope using hachures, a non-data based modality that preceded contour lines. It is one of several visually stunning maps in the collection that features a volca-no.

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HL 57-22. Carl Ritter (1779-1859), Insel Mascarenha, Bourbon, La Réunion oder Bonaparte nach Bory St. Vincent tab. IX und X, 1802. A reproduction of Reunion Island, a volcanic island off the coast of Madagascar, is one of some forty delicately drawn manuscript maps and views of volcanoes by the famous nine-teenth-century German geographer, Carl Ritter, who along with his contemporary Alexander von Humboldt, is among the founders of modern geography.

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HL 22-33. Johan Elias Grimmel (1703-1759), Der Sinus Finnicus von Cronstad bis St. Peters-buerg benebst den auf seinen kusten befindlichen Lusthoefen, [1742]. This attractive map of St. Petersburg and the Gulf of Finland is from the Prince of Liechtenstein collection. The inset image likely shows the port and skyline of Cronstadt, a small city that was traditionally seat of the Russian admiralty. The Hauslab-Liechtenstein col-lection includes several well-preserved examples of early Russian maps.

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HL 27-50. Johann Christoph Mueller (1673-1721), Mappa geographica Regni Bohemiae in du-odecim circulos divisae cum Comitatu Glacensi et districtu Egerano adiunctis circumiacentium regionum partibus conterminis ex accurata totius Regni perlustratione et geometrica dimen-sione omnibus ut par est, muenris absoluta et ad usum commodum nec non omnia et singula distinctius cognoscenda XXV sectionibus exibita... , 1720. These two sheets are part of Johann Christoph Mueller's rare 1720 map Regni Bohemi-ae. The first sheet shows the elaborately decorated cartouche, while the second contains a de-tailed inset of Prague, with a depiction of the Charles Bridge. The map features many other illustrations that allude to the economic activity and natural setting of the region shown.

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HL 30-1. Cassini family; Cassini, Cesar-Francois (1714-1784), Carte France Levee Par Ordre du Roy Premiere Feuille. Presented here is a portion of the Paris sheet of the Cassini Survey of France (1741-1783), which was drawn at the scale of 1:86,400. The copy of this 180-sheet map is printed on heavy paper and is hand colored.

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HL 41-74. Johann Thomas Trattnern (1717-1798), Abriss der Schlact bey Krzeczor, zwischen Planian und Collin in Boehmen, zwischen der Kays. Koen. Armee unter dem Commando Sr. Excell des Herrn General-Feld-Marschalls Leopold Grafen von Daun, under der Pruessischen Armee, die der Koenig in eigner Person angefuehrt, bey welcher die k.k. Waffen den Sieg davon getragen den 18, Junii 1757. The Battle of Krezcor was a confrontation associated with the more well-known Battle of Kolin, a notable Austrian victory over Prussian forces led by Frederick the Great. This is the only broadside of this type in the Geography and Map Division's Hauslab-Liechtenstein acces-sion. Some 250 such broadsides, also from the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Collection, are in the col-lections of the Library's Prints and Photographs Division.

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HL 61-58. Josef Juettner and Franz Lettany, ERDKUGEL nach astronomischen und trigono-mischen Bestimmungen entworfen und gezeichnet von Jos. Jüttner Hauptm: und Fra: Lettany Lieutnt: der K:k:östr. Artillerie imJahre 1822 zu Prag.

Globes and globe gores were among the cartographic interests of Hauslab. This set of hand-colored engraved gores by Josef Juettner and Franz Lettany was designed to fit on a 12.5-inch terrestrial table globe. Note the absence of a depiction of Antarctica and the labeling of Australia as “Neu Holland.”

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HL 11-85. Joseph Peschke, Plan from the Bord to the West Side of the Title St. Lucie Drawn in the yeaer 1763. designet froom Joseph Peschke in the year 1795. Peschke copied a 1763 map of the then British-controlled island of St. Lucie, which is now referred to as St. Lucia. The mapmaker’s use of lines, color, and shading bring a sense of realism to the viewer.

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HL 54-4. Laurie and Whittle, A Whimsical Representation of England and Wales, 1794. Hauslab's collecting interest included such cartographical oddities such as this map ti-tled, A Whimsical Representation of England and Wales. England and Wales are depicted as an old woman seated on a fish. This map is unique, as the human and animal forms are illus-trated into an accurate depiction the landmass. More commonly, the geographic forms were altered to fit the artistic theme.

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HL 54-8. Heinrich Buenting (1545-1606), Europe Prima Pars Terrae in Forma Virginis, [1581]. Buenting depicted Europe in the shape of Elizabeth I of England. His map dates to the mid to late 1500s. It represents an early example of the anthropomorphic maps featured in Hauslab's collection.

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HL 54-10. Geometrischer Entmuerf der Besammten XVII Niederlaendichen Brouintzien. Holland is portrayed as a lion, the symbol of the Dutch royal family. The country’s sev-enteen historic provinces are shown along with ships representing it as a maritime power.

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HL 54-11. W.L. Stoeller, Kaart der Oneenige Staten van Europa, 1870. Stoeller depicted European countries zoomorphically on this map, which was published during the era of the Franco-Prussian War. Prussia is illustrated as an octopus to propagandize against its growing military power and reach in Europe. The dual-monarchy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867-1918) is represented by a dual-headed beast labeled “kalfsvlees,” the Dutch word for veal.

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Notes on Front and Back Cover

Front Cover: HL 27-29. Vischer de Jange, Archiducatus Austriae Inferioris Geographica, et Noviter Emendata Accuratissima Descriptio, 1697. A portion of an illustrated map of Austria that shows mapmakers surveying the land

from a high vantage point.

Back Cover: HL-54-7. Heinrich. Buenting, Asia Seunda Pars Terrae in Forma Pegasi, 1581.

A map in the shape of the flying horse Pegasus, which shows the landmass of the pre-

sent-day Middle East and Southeast Asia but omits Japan, Korea, and much of modern-day Chi-

na. This omission may have been a result of a lack of knowledge on the part of the cartogra-

pher; however, as the exploration of these lands by Europeans occurred well before the map

was thought to have been made, it seems intentional. The text on the reverse of the map also

contains interesting commentary on Quinsai (modern-day Hangzhou, China), the single Chinese

city on the map, which the cartographer put on the tail of Pegasus. The key describes Quinsai

in seemingly mythological terms, stating that it is “the biggest city in the entire world /and one

finds in it twelve hundred bridges.”

The Philip Lee Phillips Map Society of the Library of Congress is named in honor of

Philip Lee Phillips (1857-1924), the first Superintendent of Maps at the Library of Congress

when the Hall of Maps and Charts was established in 1897.

The group is a non-profit, voluntary association whose objective is to develop, enhance,

and promote the work of the Geography and Map Division by advancing its publication, educa-

tion, exhibition, preservation and acquisition programs.